Welcome to our PLN (Professional Learning Network)!
The PLN is designed for CILC's members to find colleagues, join conversations and grow their network. Once you have joined the PLN you can catch up on the latest discussions, review professional development tweets and check out the calendar for upcoming PLN events.
All CILC members are welcome to join the PLN and get connected to this great learning community.
Thank you to Cisco for sponsoring the PLN!
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PD Spotlight
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Upcoming PLN Events
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Topic: Best Practices for Video Communications in K-12 Date/Time: March 5th at 2pmEST Join Zoom and the Center for Interactive Learning and Collaboration for a discussion on how schools across the country are using video communications to enrich student learning with interactive virtual content. You’ll hear from two education leaders that have been using Zoom for years to take students on live, interactive virtual field trips to museums, zoos, science centers and art galleries around the world, and to connect their students to other groups of students for collaborative projects. The presenters will also share best practices on how to use video communications in K-12 classrooms. |
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Latest Collaborations
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Help Me Show Staff How CILC Works!
I am designing a K-12 teacher inservice around how CILC works. I would love to collaborate with a partner to demonstrate that. Training is planned for March 2019. Many thanks for any assistance!
Technology in your Canadian School Vs. US Schools!
Background: Our English Language Arts teachers are working on the standard 5 which is: "Technology influences culture." This unit examines the progression of specific forms of technology and their influences on various forms of society.
The essential que...
Geography 20 Questions!
I am posting on behalf of a 5th grade teacher in the Central New York region who would like to make a connection with another 5th grade class somewhere in the world. He'd love for both classes to play "20 Questions" in order to try to figure out where each cla...
Spanish class collaboration
I am in search of native Spanish speakers to collaborate with my novice Spanish students. We'd love to do a mystery session, or embark on a collaborative project
Seasons and Weather
We are a first grade class in Virginia learning about the seasons and weather. We would like to share with another class to see how their weather and seasons might be different than us.
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PLN Communities
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Whether you are a K-12 Educator or Administrator, or at a Higher Education institution, there is a community for you. When you join a community, you will get access to interactions with your peers, professional learning opportunities, and our new badging program, developed with Cisco Connected Educator program.
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Hot Topics
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When a chat discussion in a PLN community has numerous members responding in a short amount of time the discussion will be upgraded to a hot topic!
Check back soon to see hot topics and join in on the most current discussion.
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PLN Community Discussions
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Earn Cisco Connected Educator Badges
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The Cisco Connected Educator Badge Curriculum empowers educators with high-quality collaboration tools to foster innovation and creativity in today’s digital learning environments. Some highlights:
- COMMUNITIES: Provides a Professional Learning Network (PLN) in which members — through the use of the Cisco collaboration application, Webex Teams —belong to individual learning communities to share and discuss best practices pertaining to their teaching with collaboration technologies.
- BADGES: The PLN will provide support to educators as they work on any one of the Cisco Connected Educator Badges.